 The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 501889Full view - About this book
 | Lyman Abbott - Future punishment - 1888 - 996 pages
...the doctrine of eternal misery with the character of God.] JONATHAN EDWARDS— AD 1703-1758. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked : . . . you are a hundred thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful serpent... | |
 | 1888 - 832 pages
...inflictions of such a God — and those that come from such a God as Dr. Edwards describes. He says: "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is drfadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of no'hing... | |
 | Death - 1888 - 972 pages
...the doctrine of eternal misery with the character of God.] JONATHAN EDWARDS— AD 1703-1758. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insert over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked : . . . you are a hundred thousand times... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - Future punishment - 1889 - 1004 pages
...them, but present a few as illustrations out of many of a similar nature. " The God that holds }-011 over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider,...have you in his sight ; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours." * " God holds sinners... | |
 | Eschatology - 1889 - 400 pages
...century. Jonathan Edwards, in his famous sermon on "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds...eyes than to bear to have you in His sight; you are 10,000 times as abominable in His eyes as the most hateful and venomous serpent is in ours. You have... | |
 | Eschatology - 1890 - 460 pages
...hands of an ansrry God " ? " The God that o «/ holds you over the pit of hell, much in the same way as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over...the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked." Apart from the metaphor, is this to be regarded as orthodox teaching or not ? Is this the God who has... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 774 pages
...them is like great waters dammed up for the present but rising higher and higher, that "God holds them over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire ; that they are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than a venomous serpent is in ours."... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1891 - 296 pages
...the pit of hell," runs an oftquoted passage from this powerful denunciation of the wrath to come, " much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. . . . You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Collections - 1891 - 298 pages
...of hell," runs an oftquoted passage from this powerful denunciation of the wrath to come, " much an one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. . . . You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent... | |
 | Elizabeth Haven Appleton - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1891 - 284 pages
...usually: "Sinners shall slide in due time," is the text. Here is one very famous sentence : "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some other loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked ; He looks upon you as... | |
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